Against the Turks

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 187, 16 January 1915, Page 5

Against the Turks

A MODERN lIORATICS. THE MAN WHO KEPT THE BRID.-E. MASSACRES OF CHRISTIANS. ANOTHER TURKISH DEFEAT. Petrograd, -January 14. Soudja ed Doules, formerly Governor of tibcrbaijan, has arrived at Tiilis. lie, with 400 men, fought the Turks for ten hours and defended a bridge, thus enabling the refugees to escape. All but four of his followers were annihilated. The staffs of Consulates and banks at Tabriz escaped. The Turks and Kurds massacred Christians and refugees at Maindoab.

Cossacks ambushed two companies of Turks and 120 gunners on the Caucasus frontier, and killed or took them all prisoners. They also captured nine tield guns.

THE TABRIZ INCIDENT. j Times and Sydney Sun Services. Uc'-eived 15, (i p.m. London, January 15. The Times, in a leader, on the seizure of Tabriz, says it was a curious and unexpected development It does not appear to have, been a formal military operation, but is evidently the work of Turkish irregulars organised for the invasion of Persia, and destroys a lot of shreds of Turkey's pretence that she is waging a holy war. RUSSIAN R I'dNFORCKMENTS. TURKISH REARGUARD CUT OFF. Received 1(5, 12.50 a.m. Petrograd, January 15. Russians in the Caucasus have been reinforced by Armenian volunteers and Sibernian Cossacks. The Turkish rearguards have been driven beyond Oltynov, and are cut off from the nearest road back to Erhcroum.